Motion Picture Herald (Nov-Dec 1934)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
Nov-Dec 1934
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (Nov-Dec 1934)
Leaf #:
000149
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Founded in 1915 by a Chicago printing company as a regional trade paper for Midwest exhibitors. In 1916, editor Martin Quigley bought out the owners, and over the next 15 years, he grew EXHIBITORS HERALD into one of the most important national, weekly trade papers in the film business. Quigley acquired MOTOGRAPHY in 1917 and MOVING PICTURE WORLD in 1927. In 1930, he acquired MOTION PICTURE NEWS and the new 'consolidated' publication became MOTION PICTURE HERALD. From the pulpit of his editorial page, Quigley preached the need to improve the motion picture industry and improve the quality of the films. He skillfully served as a mediator in disputes -- between distributors and exhibitors, between the film industry and the Catholic Church (Quigley was one of the architects of the Production Code). Quigley claimed that EXHIBITORS HERALD represented the 'independent exhibitor' and sections like 'What the Picture Did for Me?' certainly provided a forum for theater owners. But plenty of exhibitors viewed Quigley as a servant to the studios and large theater chains. In response, publications such as SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, INDEPENDENT EXHIBITORS FILM BULLETIN, HARRISON'S REPORTS, and BOX OFFICE were either formed or grew significantly in the years following Quigley's brief moment of consolidation in 1930. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
November 03, 2022
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November 10, 1934 MOTION PICTURE HERALD 59 rrHEATCC I3ECEIPT$--C€NT'[)J Theatres Current Week Picture Gross Previous Week Picture Gross High and Low Gross (Tabulation covers period from January, 1933.) (Dates are 1S33 unless otherwise specified) Oklahoma City Capitol 1,200 10c-41e Criterion 1,700 10c -56c Liberty 1,500 10c-36c Midwest 1,500 10c56c Warner 1.900 20c-75c Omaha Brandeis 1,200 20c-35c Orpheum 3,000 2Sc-40c Paramount 2,800 25c-40c World 2.500 2Sc-40c Philadelphia Aldine 1,200 40c-65c Arcadia 600 25c-50c Boyd 2.400 40c-65c Earle 2,000 40c-65c Fox 3,000 35c-65c Karlton 1.000 30c-50c Locust 1.300 40c-65c Stanley 3.700 40c-65c Stanton 1.700 30c-55c Portland, Ore. Broadway 1.912 25c-40c Music Box 1,000 25c-35c Oriental 2.^)40 2Sc Opheum 1,700 2Sc-40c Paramount 3.008 25c-40c United Artists... 945 25c-40c San Francisco Fox 4.600 15c-40c Golden Gate .... 2,800 25c-40c Orpheum 3,000 15c-40c Paramount 2,670 lSc-65c St. Francis 1.40O 15c-S5c United Artists... 1.200 15c-55c <Varfield 2.700 25c-65c Seattle Blue Mouse .... 950 25c-5."!c Fifth Avenue ... 2.750 2Sc-55c liberty 2,000 10c-25c Music Box 950 2Sc-50c Music Hall 2.275 25c-55c Orpheum 2,500 25c-35c Paramonat 3.050 25c-35c "Outcast Lady" (MGM) 1,800 "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" 3,600 (Para.) "Caravan" (Fox) 90O (4 days) "Ladies Should Listen" (Para.)... 600 (3 days) "Belle of the Nineties" (Para.).... 5,000 "Kansas City Princess" (W. B.).. 13,000 "Six Day Bike Rider" (F.N.) and 5,000 "A Girl of the Limberlost" (Mono.) "Here Comes the Navy" (W.B.) 9,100 and "One Exciting Adventure" (Univ.) "Wagon Wheels" (Para.) 2,900 "Hideout" (MGM) 4,000 "Notorious Sophie Lang" (Para.) 2,300 (4 days) 'Crime Without Passion" (Para.) 400 (3 days) 'Happiness Ahead" (F. N.) 3,000 'The Gay Divorcee" (Radio) 6,000 (2nd week) ■'The Last Gentleman" (U. A.).. 9,400 and "Desirable" (W. B.) "Dames" (W. B.) 9,400 "Cleopatra" (Para.) 7,200 "Student Tour" (MGM) and 3,500 "Ready for Love" (Para.) "Madame Du Barry" (W.B.) 2,000 (3 days-2nd week) "365 Nights in Hollywood" (Fox) 1,700 (6 days) "What Every Woman Knows".... 10,500 (MGM) (6 days) "A Lost Lady" (F. N.) 18,000 (6 days') "Caravan" (Fo.x) 13,000 (6 days) "One Night of Love" (Col.) 8,500 (6 days) "Little Friend" (Gaumont British) 4,000 (6 days) "Happiness Ahead" (W. B.) 7,500 (6 days) "Our Daily Bread" (U. A.) 5,000 (6 days) "The Dude Ranger" (Fox) 5,000 "The Gay Divorcee" (Radio) 2,000 "There's Always Tomorrovi'" (Univ.) 2,500 and "The Gridiron Flash" (Radio) "The Fountain" (Radio) 4,500 8,500 "Cleopatra" (Para.) "The Merry Widow" (MGM) 6,000 "Case of the Howling Dog" (W. B.) 10,000 and "Ready for Love" (Para.) "The Gay Divorcee" (Radio) 19,500 "One More River" (Univ.) and.... 9,000 "Human Side" (Univ.) "Marie Galante" (Fox) and 10,0(X) "Six Day Bike Rider" (F. N.) "Barretts of Wimpole Street" (MGM) 7,000 'The Last Gentleman" (U. A.).... 7.000 (2nd week) "Peck's Bad Boy" (Fox) 21,000 "The Gay Divorcee" (Radio) 4,200 "Cleopatra" (Para.) 10,200 (9 days) "The Lady Is Willing" (Col.) and 3,450 "Randy Rides Alone" (Mono.) "Young and Beautiful" (Mascot) and 3,200 "Side Streets" (F. N.) 'Gift of Gab" (Univ.) and 3,1 "Crime Without Passion" (Para.) "Madame Du Barry" (W. B.).... 7,000 (6 days-lst week) "Death on the Diamond" (MGM) 850 (3 days) "Outcast Lady" (MGM) 10.000 (6 days) "Six Day Bike Rider" (F.N.).... 14,000 (6 davs) "Peck's Bad Boy" (Fox) 15,000 (6 days) "The Last Gentleman" (U. A.).. 3,200 (6 days) "Power" (Gaumont British) 2,300 (6 days-2nd week) "One Night of Love" (Col.) 11.000 (6 days) "Wagon Wheels" (Para.) 5,200 (6 days) "Wake Up and Dream" (Univ.) and 4,500 "Dragon Murder Case" (F. N.) "Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back" 2,000 (U. A.) "The Gay Divorcee" (Radio) 6,000 "Servants* Entrance" (Fox) 9,000 'What Every Woman Knows" (MGM) 5,000 "Big Hearted Herbert" (W. B.).. 10,000 and "Lemon Drop Kid" (Para.) "Kentucky Kernels" (Radio) 13,000 "One Night of Love" (Col.) 4,500 (8th week) "A Lost Lady" (F. N.) and 11,000 "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" (Para.) "Cleopatra" (Para.) 7,000 "The Last Gentleman" (U.A.) 10,000 (1st week) "Barretts of Wimpole Street" 22,000 (MGM) (2nd week) "The Count of Monte Cristo" (U.A.) 3,400 (3rd week) "Servants' Entrance" (Fo.x) 4,400 (5 days') "Name the Woman" (Col.) and.. 3,750 "Whom the Gods Destroy" (Col.) "Six Day Bike Rider" (¥'. N.) and 3,200 "Million Dollar Ransom" (Univ.) "Richest Girl in the World" (Radio) 5,900 "The Gay Divorcee" (Radio) 7.200 "A Girl of the Limberlost" 7,300 (Mono.) HiKh 1-6-34 "Going Hollywood" 4.100 Low 3-11 "From Hell to Heaven" 1.350 High 11-18 "College Coach" 11.000 Low 3-U "Clear All Wires" 1.800 High 6-16-34 "Half a Sinner" and ) "Uncertain Lady" ) 5,000 Low 3-18 "The Death Kiss' and I "The Fourth Horseman" ) 1,100 High 2-25 "State Fair" 8.500 l.ow 3-11 "Emnlovres' Fntranrr" 1.^ High 11-3-34 "Kansas City Princess"... 13.000 Low 3-10-34 "I've Got Youi .Number".. 6,400 (6 aays) High S-5-34 "The House of Rothschild" Low 12-30 "The World (Thanges" and i "Havana Widows" J High 3-10-34 "Easy to Love" Low 4-29 "Sweepings" High 7-22 "Gold Diggers of 1933" Low 2-24-34 "Six of a Kind" and ) "Good Uame" ) High 6-3 "Peg O' My Heart" and 1 "Perfect Understanding" J Low 5-19-34 "As the Earth Turns" 1 and "Smokv" ( High 5-5-34 "The House of Rothschild" Low 6-9-34 "Sorrell and Son" (8 days) High 1-6-34 "Duck Soup" (7 days)... Low 9-1-34 "Notorious Sophie Lang".. High 1-6-34 "Little Women" Low 6-30-34 "Where Sinners Meet".. High 4-7-34 "Harold Teen" Low 10-21 "Saturday's Millions" High 4-22 "Cavalcade" Low 10-3-34 "Caravan" High 10-3-34 "One Night of Love".... Low 8-25-34 "Let's Talk It Over" High 2-11 "Cavalcade" Low 10-3-34 "Little Friend".. High 11-25 "I'm No Angel" Low 11-3-34 "Happiness Ahead" High 6-3 "The Little Giant" Low 7-14 "1 Love That Man" High 4-7-34 "Wonder Bar".... low 3-11 "What! No Beer?"... High 12-9 "Little Women' Low 5-13 "No More Orchids"... High 10-14 "Rafter Romance". Low 11-18 "College Coach" 23,000 3.500 17.250 5.000 13.250 5.250 7.500 3,250 23,000 4,000 6.500 1.400 30.000 8.000 40.000 10.000 29WI 13,000 8.500 2.200 13.000 4.000 32 ''Ti 7.500 10.000 4.000 13.000 3 ^nn 14.OT0 1,600 14.UU.1 1.600 High 11-18 "The Way to Love". Low 12-2 "Walls of Gold" High 4-28-34 "The House of RothschUd" Low 3-11 "Madame Butterfly" High 4-8 "Should a Woman Tell?" and "Speed Demon" Low 8-18-34 "Sin of Nora Moran" and "Along Came Sally" High 2-11 "The Mummy" Low 10-21 "My Woman" 12.000 3.500 9.800 1.600 15.500 4.500 25.500 8,000 High 10-27 "I'm No Angel". Low 12-23 "Sitting Pretty" . High 3-25 "What! No Beer?" and ] "Broadway Bad" 1 Low 4-14-34 "Registered Nurse" and j "Murder in Trinidad" J High 12-30 "Roman Scandals" Low 8-26 "The Wrecker" High 9-15-34 "Chained" Low 5-27 "Story of Temple Drake" 40.000 7.000 13,500 3,500 17.000 4.000 28.000 10.000 "Mrs. Wiggs ofthe Cabbage Patch" 6,100 (Para.) "Outcast Lady" (MGM) 5,900 High 12-9 "Little Women" Low 8-19 "The Rebel" High 8-5 "Tugboat Annie" Low 5-5-34 "Tar7an and His Mate".... High 3-3-34 "It Happened One Night" Low 6-24 "Uptown New York" High nil "Fontlight Parade" Low 9-22-kJ4 "There's .Mways Tomorrofw" and "Midnight Alibi" High 5-26-34 "Wild Cargo" l ow R lf!-34 "Bachelor Rnit" High 10-21 "Bureau of Missing Persons" (6 days) Low 4-21-34 "Two .Mone" and ) "I Belie%'ed in You" J High 1-7 "A Farewell to Arms" Low 1-13-34 "Dancing Lady" (2od run) 8.500 2.500 19.250 5.000 7.000 3.000 8.000 \ 2.900 11.500 4 inn 9,000 3.750 9..^no 4.000